hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel I have a new video
tutorial created for seven dots to do I created an altered mixed-media canvas
that really reminds me of a Firefly and I just really loved all the little
details and textures that I added to make this look very bright and colorful
all the products and links are listed below in the description area so just
sit down relax and enjoy the process I took a 6x6 gallery canvas which has a
really thick border and it has a few of metal buttons on the side but it could
be any type of canvas and I covered it in black gesso I covered it all around
the edges and just a little bit in the center because I knew I was going to put
some paper in the center I also took a mason jar of lid and just
took the lid itself without the center because I wanted to create some kind of
a shaker element to my canvas once the black gesso was dry I took a 6x6 paper
from the seven dots to do hazy days collection and using some soft matte gel
medium from Prima I glued it to the background then I took some of the gel
and sealed it also so it would withstand all the mixed media I was going to put
on it the gel helps protect the paper and lets you prep the page for more
things for mediums that can go on the background
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to create some texture in the background I took the triangle stencil from the
dreamscape collection from seven dots to do and using some graphite texture paste
from Prima finna bear I did the texture only on the edges and created a border
around the canvas this stencil comes with an open-ended area that you can
really put right against the border of the canvas and create a great texture
that way I also took the actual paste and created texture and the edges of my
canvas by applying it with a palette knife or the silicon brush and I did it
in a roughly manner so it would create this really rough texture
while that paste was drying I took the mason jar lid and I painted it with the
Prima spin a bear pure sunshine acrylic paint this is a yellow metallic paint
and I just went around and gave their lid a couple of coats you will see later
however that I actually turned this more of a golden color but the yellow did
help give that really nice sunshine look to the background
I traced the lid onto an acetate sheet so I could put it inside the lid and
seal the hole so I could create my shaker part of the canvas I just cut it
out with scissors and try to fit it in the middle and then glue it this is not
a heat-resistant eight sheet so do not heat set it this is just part of a
packaging that I'm reusing you could use heat resist as a date which I've used in
other videos and that will help it dry faster because you could use your heat
tool however I took I just waited it out and just let it dry on its own and I use
some soft matte gel to just glue it inside the lid did take a little bit
longer to dry than I wanted to but I did other things in the meantime
while the lid was drying I took the yellow acrylic paint again and using a
brush I use a dry brush technique to apply it to the textured area both in
the front and on the sides of the canvas
the dry brush technique it's a good way to add a little bit of color to an area
without taking away the background texture so it just gives a small tinge
of color and you can keep the really nice dark texture in the background
I use the Prima finna where art alchemy wax in the aged brass color to add a
little bit more golden highlights to the canvas I did this using my fingers and
just added it in certain areas to just mix both the yellow and the goal
together to get a really nice bright effect
I took another piece of acetate which was going to seal the other side of the
lid and glued a beautiful my estudios designed for $7.00 Studios Flair then I
added a lot of beads both regular beads micro beads and some sequin to the
inside of the lid so I could create the shaker card I let this layer dry for a
little while before I was turning it around to put the actual lid
I took several papers from the 6x6 paper pad from both the hazy days &
dreamscapes collection from seven dots to do and I cut out a few flourishes
using the Tim Holtz elegant flourish dye then I took some distress ink both wild
honey and rusty hinge and added with my daughter some ink on some areas of the
flourishes so it would turn them a little bit more Orange
then I arranged my flourishes around the canvas towards the outside and let some
of the flourishes hang out off the canvas I guess I should have thought of
it sooner and should have cut some chipboard pieces with the flourishes so
I could back up the paper so it wouldn't be as flimsy but I did find a solution
for that later on and I'll show you what I did so here I'm just arranging all the
flourishes and then I took some soft matte gel and used it to glue all these
flourishes to the background I glued all the flourishes using the gel
and then what I did is for those pieces that were sticking out from the outside
I added some gel both at the top and at the bottom of the flourish so it would
strengthen that paper and wouldn't buckle and that helped keep it in place
and if you really want to make it strong you could either add a lot of different
layers of the gel or you could cut out something a little bit sturdier to back
it up underneath which is I guess what I should have done but it's okay I don't
go back on my mistakes I just move forward and continue on so here I am
gluing everything and rearranging it the way I like it and then after that I
sealed everything both top and bottom with the gel
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I cut out a circle out of the hazy days paper this is a 6x6 paper from the same
paper pad so I could place it in the center and that would be the base for my
lid then I took some of the soft matte gel and added it to the rim of the lid
turned my acetate upside down and let it dry underneath you have to make sure
that this is really really dry because as you can see here I didn't let it dry
fully even though I thought I did and some of it spilled and I did fix this
otherwise afterwards but it did spill when I lifted it up a little bit to
create the wings I took another Tim Holtz big die this is from the bee and I
cut out just the wings out of it I was going to put the whole thing but it
didn't really fit properly I wish I would have had the actual dragonfly or
the butterfly but I didn't have it so I just had to make do with what I had and
I used to be and I actually really loved how the wings turned out I the bee set
comes with both the Dyck die and the actual embossing folder to create those
ridges on the wings so that's what I did I put it through the embossing folder
and all I kept were the wings and added them around my lid once the lid was
glued to the background which I had to let dry for a while I took some of the
art alchemy wax again and just added a little bit on top to make sure that it
doesn't look as yellow and it matches the rest of the canvas then I took some
soft matte gel medium and dipping it into the pot and then dipping it inside
some microbeads these are the copper microbeads, I added some more texture
around the wings and around the lid and even some of it on top of the lid itself
as well you
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I also added some regular beads which are a little bit bigger than those micro
beads and just to add different texture around the lid I let this dry thoroughly
because I had to make sure that the acetate doesn't melt so I couldn't heat
set it so I literally walked away and just let this dry naturally for many
hours because gel sometimes takes a long time to dry and then I came back to it
and added what my final touches I took some of the wax and just added some nice
cute light bulb from Prima marketing and added a few more touches with some gems
and glued everything to the background
these Sade and crystals gems from prima marketing we're the perfect color as an
accent to my canvas
sometimes I don't know in which direction the project is going to take
me I knew I wanted to create a kind of shaker element to my canvas and I knew
that I wanted a Firefly but I didn't know what else and how I was going to
execute it and I'm actually quite happy with the result and I hope you enjoyed
this video here I am showing you how it shakes and just moving the little beads
and sequins inside a little lid I just think it's nice to use something that
you can recycle like a mason jar lid and just go ahead and find other things in
your house and you can use for those purposes thank you so much for watching
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